Holidays

To the guy below who said it's not a men fragrance, listen mate i gotta be honest with you my girlfriend loves the scent, let me give you some advice... if a girl notices you because of the smell it's just the first step, you have to follow the game and try to play with her a little not chicken out like a scared cat, be confident dude, girls don't like scared cats, you smell amazing. yo should have respondend something like: "you should try smell it better, come closer.... see told you it was good." DON'T BLAME IT ON THE PARFUM CHICKEN ! Mooving on to the actual review: SEX: Def a unisex fragrance. IMMAGE: it smells like fresh and clean loundry mixed with the thick 50 plus solar protection cream you apply in Miami to not get roasted by the sun. Another picture that may help you visualise it is a High end hand cream with coconut oil and cream in it. SCENTS AND NOTES: this is a parfum that doesn't change its smells after the opening, the dried down smells like the opening but a bit sweeter although the bergamot is still there. Cream, coconut, and a touch of bergamot that make this fragrance perfect for summer time I smell a lot the note of cream though is not mentioned in the breakdown, the musk is pretty good, it blends perfectly with the coconut resemblying a fresh but sweet scent that i love when I found it in the fresh laundry. The bergamot is really persistent although it is not the top note you smell witch is really hard to fabrich given the general low performances of the note itself and the fact that is not overwhelmed by the vanilla and the coconut It's a merit medal. It's sweet but pleasant and fresh really hard stuff to come by. it gets a lot of compliments but is nothing particular or unique that you would expect from a niche fragrance, if you are looking for something new and particular stay away from this. PERFORMANCES: i'll be updating as the hours go by: for reference: 3 full sprays in the arm. - 0/1h: the musk is the most noticeable amongst the notes, the bergamot is not that strong in the opnening, it is a tiny bit covered by the musk and the coconut, from just the first spray i can tell it has a high oil concentration since it made my arm a bit shiny. 10 minutes in, i'm going noseblind this stuff is really potent. 30 minutes in the projection is out of this world, the coconut with the bergamot are as loud as ever. -1/2h: The vanilla is coming a bit sharper than the other notes, bergamot is a tiny bit less noticeable. Coconut and musk are still the notes you smell stronger, so pleasant ! -2/5h: the smell is still strong the bergamot has almost completely faded away the creamy vibe makes me now distinguish pretty well the floral notes, the yellow floral is what makes this fragrance more creamy and makes the scent smell more like a cake now than a sunscreen. The white floral makes it smell like clean instead. -5/10h: the scent is still noticeble the cocout is now almost completely gone, the musk and the sandal wood are the most noticeble notes though is still pretty close to the opening just without that bergamot and that coconut punch. -10/12h: the scent is now almost completly gone the vanilla is the main note and the only distinguishible one. skyn scent and no projeection whatsoever at this point -13h: completly gone, no smell at all. the most challenging part was the nose blindness, it really is a potent fragrance so it's normal if you don't smell it others will, and a lot too. BOTTLE: the Mancera quality is top notch when it comes to functionality, the atomizer is 10/10. the design of the bottle is minimalistic and a bit too much simple and plain, the glass is very thick tough and the magnetic cap is solid and heavy so it balences it out. though if anybody see's it without smelling it, will think is a 10 bucks bottle grabbed at the supermarket. PERS.OPINION: it is a crowd pleaser, it is fresh creamy a bit salty and clean at the same time. I would suggest to dress simple and tend to white and cream clothes. I see it in a young men gooing to the beach with the friends or gooing to the grocery shop, it is not a fragrance yo want to wear in a close and crowded place like a car or a plane since in can get cloying to others, it is a beast mode type scent. i would suggest to waear it in the afternoon, hot and torrid weather. although is an all year round frangrance since it's very simple yet conforting and fresh. 8.7/10 Great performances, great smell but not unique and a bit cloying in the long run.

I have to say that I'm a little shocked by some of the reviews. Of course everything is subjective, but I am so impressed with the blending on this fragrance that some of the negative reviews are out of left field for me. I haven't had the best luck with many Mancera fragrances because, like many others, I get a lot of that synthetic vibe that just sticks in your nose and doesn't go away. However, Holidays reads as something much more sophisticated and well-blended to me. As a yellow & white flower lover, tropical scents always make me happy. A lot of them have the same overall vibe, which can get boring. Holidays is so different because, while not listed in the notes anywhere, it has what reads to me as a tobacco note that runs through the fragrance, giving it a very different profile. Rather than a tropical, bubble-gummy or sunscreen type of feel, it has a darker feel that is very rich and sexy. It still has the classic yellow flower and coconut that leans tropical, but rather than a "day at the beach" scent, this is more sexy. This isn't the girl that's laying on a towel at the beach getting a tan. This is the woman who's caught your eye across the bar. You buy her a drink and ask her to take a walk on the beach well after sunset. You're walking through the sand, catching the cool salty breeze. You can smell the night-blooming flowers and the wet greenery nearby, remnants of coconut perfume she was wearing earlier in the day, and the cigar someone is smoking further down the beach. So, so sexy. This is different enough from the typical tropical/beachy fragrances in my collection that it stands out as something I will always want to have on hand! If you're on the fence, buy a sample. It really needs the warmth of skin to come alive so don't make a decision by smelling on paper alone!

Holidays is a calming, simple scent that grows on you. On first sniff, it does smell a bit like a basic air freshener, but throughout the day, it transforms into a warm, smooth, sweet delight. It reminds me of lazy summer afternoons at the beach. Tiare flower and vanilla are the most prominent notes; I barely detect coconut. I don't notice the sea notes on clothes, but the dry down on the skin is definitely a "salt left on the skin after a swim in the ocean" vibe. I need to overspray (10ish sprays) to notice it throughout the day -- but when I do notice it, it's so wonderful! It doesn't project as much as I expected. I asked my friend if he could smell my fragrance, and he had to sniff my neck to notice it. However, layering with Ambroxan really helps with projection and longevity. I've been wearing Holidays for a week and have made a substantial dent in my bottle. I love it more and more as the days go by. Holidays is a casual scent. I would assume someone who smells like this would be easy to get along with and doesn't take life too seriously. It is unisex, but I think a woman could pull it off in more situations than a man -- as it leans a tiny bit feminine. I would enjoy smelling this on a man that I knew well, but probably not on a man I'm meeting for the first time -- not sure why, but that's how I feel, haha. I am a big fan of Olympea and the Olympea flankers -- Holidays is a streamlined, more grounded fragrance. Kind of like if the Olympeas had an older brother. They're not the same, but definitely in the same family.

BUTTERY TIARE with Sweet, Marine COCONUT. Opens with a burst of coconut-bergamot, that deepens into a floral heart of tiare with sweet, coconut, buttery, salty & marine nuances, all resting on a creamy, musky vanilla-wood base. Overall I get a sweet, buttery tiare-coconut scent that deepens into near-honey with salty marine touches. Contrast to Alien Goddess Mugler: These are different, but there are some similarities with a sweet beachy vibe. AG has a more forward jasmine, while Holidays has a more forward tiare flower, and a salty marine nuance. As they dry down, they become more and more similar. Both have excellent performance. Contrast to Monoi Vague d'Ete Yves Rocher: These are different, but the tiare flower is done in a similar way. MVdE is less sweet, and the tiare is more forward, buttery and succulent. Both have excellent performance. Contrast to Olympea (OG) Paco Rabanne: These are different, but there are some similarities with a marine-salty vanilla. Olympea has a more forward water-jasmine, while Holidays has a more forward tiare. Both have excellent performance. Overall: Excellent performance, and the buttery tiare flower is maintained throughout the sweetening drydown. It's a love for me. Enjoy! Update 06/18/24: I tested this the other day, and I definitely get a slightly more marine Soleil Blanc Tom Ford vibes after the spray dries and for the first ~2hrs, then it starts to get more vanillic - sweeter and sweeter (much sweeter than Soleil Blanc). Still a love.

UPDATE: I now own a full size bottle of this instead of just the sample vial - and one thing I love that I missed before is when you have a proper atomizer to apply this evenly on your skin the sandalwood really comes through in the drydown. For me, it only makes me love this frag even more! A few months ago I smelled Tom Ford's Soleil Blanc for the first time and fell in love with it - I loved the feeling of having a fragrance that immediately transported me to summer vacations at the beach with my family that was wearable enough that you could really wear it any day any time and it wouldn't feel out of place. However, after giving it a try on skin I was pretty disappointed with the performance of Soleil Blanc - so I started looking for something that gave a similar vibe but performed better on my skin. That search led me to Holidays by Mancera and let me just say - this is the one! Holidays smells so inviting and pleasant and has the coconut, vanilla, and aquatic notes that I love in Soleil Blanc but this one performs soooooo much better. A few sprays of this will last you all day and while it's definitely a strong fragrance I don't think it's so strong that it would become cloying in the heat of summer. If you're someone who loves the beach and wants a summer fragrance that is a bit different from your normal "blue" scents like BDC or Light Blue than I'm pretty sure you will love this. I am absolutely obsessed with this.

I'm new to Mancera, currently I only own Cedrat Boise, Aoud Lemon Mint and now Holidays for almost a month. I love all 3 of them for what they are but Holidays prickles that interest for something very different in my collection. It starts off quite feminine leaning with the tiare flower in the beginning, although it never leaves you it settles more wearable after 10min has passed and becomes perfectly unisex. Currently it's still winter here in South Africa but that wasn't going to stop me from wearing this so called "only in summer and when you are at the beach" fragrance. I pick up on the coconut, but it's the smooth vanilla that really makes this a lovely scent and one I currently enjoy wearing in the winter. The performance is though the roof. I wore Ministry of Oud - Greatest today, an Initio Oud for Greatness clone (very good fragrance and performs really well, Initio is still out of my budget for now) and after 1 hour at work I couldn't stop smelling myself, that's when I realized that I was still smelling Mancera Holidays on my jacket from a week back. I can't wait to try this in summer and will update my review, but for now I would like to say that with the lovely vanilla you can definitely rock this in the colder months, but I can see that in summer it might lean towards the per occasion wearing. Kudos to Mancera, keep them coming

Mancera Holidays does it for me. A lot of people complain about the syntheticness of it but I think that's part of why I like it it smells exactly like sunscreen or tanning lotion but all grown up. it's the quintessential summer perfume. Sunscreen or tanning lotion, and baking in the sun on the beach. The sea note is what really brings this fragrance to life in my opinion because it's reminiscent of the smell of salt, the ocean, and warm, sun-kissed skin. It has it all, the star of the show of course - coconut, tropical flowers (tiare), ylang, vanilla, and sea notes as well as other notes like sandal wood and musk that just really round out the fragrance as a whole. The bergamot in the opening adds a freshness and brightness to the coconut that prevents it from being sickly sweet, which to me helps it feel less synthetic overall and the ylang in the mid helps with the same thing. As I mentioned before this is why for me personally Holidays will always be my go to for the summer months because it has that familiar coppertone smell but a grown up classy version of it, if there could ever be such a thing Holidays is it. Oh and did I mention the lasting power of this perfume?! It lasts forever on clothes and on the skin I get a good 8 hours. Sillage is nuclear. Near the end it becomes a beautifully sweet, yet not cloying, tropical skin scent.

Holidays is without a doubt my favourite tropical/coconut summer fragrance. It has a scent profile that's been done so many times by so many brands that it's no longer unique or even special, but to me, this fragrance manages to stand out among all other due to its' performance and the true tropical vibe it gives. I seriously feel like I'm transported to a beach whenever I wear this fragrance and so far I've taken it on every summer holiday so I can associate it with all the new memories created. I love coconut, vanilla and sandalwood in fragrances and in here all three notes are done to perfection. The coconut stays throughout the wear, which I love, and I don't find the tiare flower and ylang-ylang overpowering. The sea note balances all other notes really well. I find this very similar to Tom Ford Soleil Blanc (which lacks performance), Montale Intense Tiare (straigtforward tiare flower, not as complex), Replica Beach Walk (more salty, lacks performance), to name a few. But they all lack in performance compared to Holidays. On me it lasts for up to 10 hours on the skin, with good projection for the first 4 hours. I reserve this for late Spring and Summer and it's my go-to scent on summer holidays. I honestly wish I discovered this before Soleil Blanc, it would have saved me some money.

I will have to defend this fragrance, since so many people completely miss its point. Firstly, it is a unisex fragrance that a man can wear comfortably in the summer. It balances sweetness and saltiness with sour and floral notes, ending with vanilla. If you are a girl expecting a sweet, girly bomb, this is not it. Second, it is a candle-like coconut (coconut literally doesn't have a smell, so a natural coconut raw material doesn't exist) mixed with a salty bergamot (of solid quality), sharpened by florals into a unique and sharp scent profile you won't find in any other fragrance. It dries down to the initial notes softening, with a non-gourmand vanilla taking center stage. It is not as synthetic as people say and uses higher-quality ingredients than almost all designer fragrances I have tried. However, this scent profile can be reminiscent of rubber if you are unfamiliar with the sour smell of ylang-ylang; here, it mixes with the sharp bergamot (I love it) to give off that vibe to some, but, to be honest, for me it smells amazing from the opening to the dry down. Longevity is insane, with the projection in the summertime being equally intense. 8.5/10

Blind buy as I needed something for summer.I was a little bit worried after reading the reviews so I have opened it and gave a few sprays....first 15/30 min smelling a little bit strange to me like salty see water with sharp white flower notes. Not terrible but not what I have been hoping for.......but then OMG 😱😍 it opens in to creamy coconut and vanilla with subtle yellow flower notes.All of this balanced by the very very gentle sea note that tones down the sweetness. You can smell the sea note when up very close to your skin but not from a small distance. PERFECT SUMMER FRAGRANCE 🥰 feels like very hot summer day ...seating on the hot sand ...edge of the beach in a white summer dress with a tropical flower in your hair .... drinking Malibu with milk and being just touched gently by the breeze of the sea. Is way more interesting and sexy than your typical coconut fragrance. The power and longevity is great. Already grabbed a complement and it was only a test spray...😜 Maybe not a safe buy for a very feminine girl... ( personally I love the unisex fragrances... this one is definitely a more feminine but still has that edge that may not be for everyone)

Coconut - Vanilla - Slightly Floral. A luxury suntan lotion. A pina colada, minus the rum. It’s exactly as advertised. I’ve been on a long journey trying to find my ultimate Summer, tropical vacation, suntan lotion fragrance. I’ve found it. I live in a climate where it’s extremely hot for 8 months out of the year. Most summer fragrances burn right off me rather quickly in this high heat. Not Mancera Holidays. It sticks with me for a good 12 hours. I have yet to find another similar summer fragrance that can do the same. TIP: While amazing on it’s own, there is also so much potential here for layering options. Using 1-2 sprays of Holidays as a coco-vanilla base; then adding a few additional sprays of something smoky, spicy or boozy blends together beautifully... Creating an even deeper, more rich olfactory experience. Ex. Holidays w/ Aventus or CDNIM for a smoky, tropical, pineapple and coconut. I love this fragrance, and am so glad I found it. If you’re on the hunt for your tropical, luxury suntan lotion, Summer vacation in a bottle like I was; look no further than Mancera Holidays. Highly recommended. Rating: 8.5/10

From all the Mancera’s I own, Holidays is my most favourite! I am unsure of the reasons why this is not more popular or hyped! I personally feel that in 2024, if you’re looking for a creamy scent constructed around tropical florals, milky coconut, sea water, smooth bergamot and sandalwood with a very delicate, clean, white musk base, sold for a very low price and you want a long lasting but not suffocating perfume for summertime, Holidays is my number one recommendation! I am aware that some people find Mancera scents very artificial and synthetic smelling but this is not the case with me. I bought my bottle two summers back and since then I haven’t really used my Beach Walk, my Terracotta, my Soleil Blanc, my Hibiscus Palm, because Holidays smells very similar but outperforms all of them! Naming it Holidays is perfect. Catching a whiff of this juice transports me instantly on a tropical island... If you don’t have a summertime scent in your collection and you want one for the summer of 2024, this is my number one recommendation. But this only for ladies, this is not a unisex scent, like many other from Mancera!

I bought this about a year ago, and it was love at first sniff. I would even go as far as saying this is definitely one of Mancera’s top 5! I hadn’t reached for it most of last winter, but this summer, I’ve been wearing the hell out of it! I went to visit my mom and sister, and they immediately commented on how great I smelled. They loved it so much, I bought them a bottle! This truly smells like you’re at a fancy resort with beautiful white beaches, and tropical flowers growing all around. You catch whiffs of the salty ocean breeze, mixed with hints of tropical suntan lotion and the tropical flowers here and there. You feel like your in paradise and wish it would never end. The performance of this is insane, and silage is great. A little of this beauty goes a long way. This will always be a part of my collection! I think this is totally blind buy safe, but I have read some reviews that were not very positive, so just to be safe, you can always sample it first! I bet you’ll love it as much as I do. Or not! That’s what makes perfume so awesome though. We all smell things differently!

I have had this fragrance for a while. When I first received my bottle, I was so disappointed. This is a coconut water, raw coconut milk fragrance, and it isn’t very sweet, at first, at all. It is so light. The florals are also very light. It just doesn’t smell like much of anything. This spring/summer (I live in Florida), this fragrance has stolen my heart. I just decided to wear it to the beach one day. I didn’t think it would matter. Let me tell you.. it lasted all day. I went swimming, I was out in the sun, and it just got sweeter and the coconut, tiare flower and ylang ylang really started to bloom. I honestly think it is an amazing summer scent. It is weird at first, I think because it is an oily perfume. It has a high shine when I spray it on my skin. Not having that first burst of alcohol in, makes this a slow bloomer, and it takes the right conditions to realize it’s beauty. If you are taking a beach vacation or going on a cruise or anywhere that you will just be out enjoying the heat, take this with you! You will love it.

A great blend in my opinion! I blind-bought this in search for a coconut that's not too cloying and would hence work in the summer heat. I think this is a great find for that description. The coconut is noticeable for sure but there are balancing elements like bergamot, musk and the salty sea note that make this an interesting and wearable coconut for adult taste. Edit (11/2023): In the past 1.5 years or so, I never reach for this... Even in the summer months. Maybe it's just that I live in a big city and in a cool climate. I would like to wear this if I was literally on a white sand beach holiday, but at home this is just too escapist for me...Will probably get rid of my bottle for that reason. It is also SO strong, geez. I sprayed it on myself last summer before wearing my rain coat and heading out to summer rain. The raincoat smelled like this for months, seriously. In a nutshell this just doesn't go with my environment at all and I guess nowadays I also rather wear something aromatic or dry in the summer.

This perfume opens with the coconut sweetness and a little bit of bergamot, then continues its sweetness and follows a floral path. Meanwhile, the sultryness is prevented by sea notes and a perfect summer perfume emerges. The sweetness at this time is now with the help of vanilla rather than coconut, and 1 hour after you feel the middle notes, you can easily notice the sandalwood along with the florality. If I were to make a brief evaluation, I can say that it is not a scent suitable for every man because some men do not like scents that are in the unisex and feminine range, but if you like a sweet and floral scent, it is very suitable for both men and women and is suitable for general taste and blind buying. Of course, the price is very affordable compared to other niche perfumes, and this perfume also has the permanence of Mancera, which does not surprise us anymore. Definitely a 10 out of 10 rating.

In my search for the perfect vacation-type scent I went a bit crazy and purchased Montale Intense Tiare, Mancera Holidays and Mancera Coco Vanille - I will compare all 3 here: 1. Montale intense tiare: strong floral, almost screechy at the beginning, that slowly evolves to a sweet tiare/coconut combo. It also has a strong synthetic quality that reminds me of laundry detergent with a tropical label. 2. Mancera Holidays: the most interesting out of the 3. It is again very synthetic and sweet, but it does offer the vacation vibe I was looking for. I like that it was a salty accord that takes me to the beach. 3. Mancera Coco Vanille: The perfect balance between Vanilla, Coconut, and White tropical florals. This turns very sweet and the vanilla is the prominent note in the drydown. I could see this scent worn all year round because of this, whereas the other two are very tropical - summer scents

The first spray hit me like a bug spray bomb — seriously, I wasn’t expecting that at all. It smelled exactly like insect repellent mixed with flowers. At that point, I was just glad I had a 20ml decant and not a full bottle. But then... after an hour, everything changed. The most beautiful scent emerged — airy, salty vanilla with a soft sweetness. Absolutely stunning! On top of that, the projection and sillage are incredible — it leaves a trail that turns heads. From my point of view, it’s versatile enough to be worn in any season. le: found out that the ylang ylang note tends to make it smell like bug spray. nevermind, that opening completely disappeared now.

Smelling something like this reminds me of why I love testing out fragrances, especially ones that might not fit my preferred scent profile. The opening hits hard with a lot of white flowers but after 5 minutes it drys down to a nice creamy coconut milk complimented by vanilla and sandalwood. You could consider it synthetic but it really annoys me that people automatically assume synthetic=bad because this is absolutely not the case with this one or most Manceras. Anyway, there is no need to worry about performance with holidays because one spray on my hand lasted 8 hours. This is an easy wearing all day lasting summertime fragrance that I highly recommend!

Someone below described this as a mix of a vanilla cake and a piña colada and they couldn’t be more right. This is very smooth-smelling on my skin. It’s like terracotta with the edges blurred out and I enjoyed it. If you’re a fan of Terracotta and Ylang in Gold, you’ll enjoy this. It would be a very safe blind buy for me (although I did sample it), but don’t use me as the yardstick because I love anything with Ylang or Tiaré (or both, in this case!). The performance was pretty good on me from the sample. I got around 7 hours on skin and it projected with lovely wafts for at least the first 2-3 hours. On skin alone and in moderate heat, that’s pretty good.